Chapitre 297: Chapter 296
The diameter of the cave through which the sunlight shone was about ten meters, just like the lake. It was about a hundred meters underground.
It turned out that this place was already so deep. It might be difficult to go up. If they climbed up along the walls, it might collapse. It seemed that the right choice was to increase the size of the pterosaur and fly up.
Tucker looked at Lin and seemed to know what she meant, but he said, "Phew, quack, quack."
Tucker meant that he wanted to track down the three skeletal dragons. He seemed to care about those creatures.
In that case, it was okay to stay in this cave for a while. Although Tucker's tribe was near the surface of this cave, Lin also wanted to study all kinds of things about this place.
Tucker sniffed at the scent on the ground and then walked in the direction where the Skeleton Dragon had fled. Lin followed behind him.
After leaving the lake that was bathed in sunlight, their surroundings returned to darkness. Lin began to emit light to illuminate their surroundings, noticing that this place was different from the previous cavern. Traces of fossilized fungi could be seen all over the cavern walls and ground, and there weren't only mushrooms here, there were also mycelium and various other strange structures.
The cave became narrower and narrower. It was almost to the point where Tucker had to walk sideways. After walking for a while, the space became spacious again, but there was no path ahead.
Was this a dead end?
That was not the case.
Lin saw many cracks on the wall in front of her. It seemed that it was the same method as before. The skeletal dragons must have broken the wall and then filled it with debris.
Lin remembered that the Inca insects liked to do this kind of thing. These two species that had nothing to do with each other actually had the same idea.
The pterosaur used its beak to remove some debris from the wall. It opened a small hole in the wall. Tucker saw what Lin did. Through the small hole, he saw the environment inside.
Inside was another spacious cave, and it was lit up. The light was not from anything else but from the ant colony.
In the cave, there was a large number of meat-cutting ants. Some of their abdomens were glowing. They lit up the entire cave.
When Lin dissected the meat-cutting ants, she did find that their abdomens were glowing. It seemed that every troop had one. This was very useful.
The Meat Cutting Ants only occupied the left side of the cave, while the three Skeletal Dragons stood on the right. Lin noticed that one of the Skeletal Dragons was holding a bloody thing that looked like a piece of meat.
It placed the meat in front of the ant swarm. Then, some Meat-Cutting Ants ran out and carried the meat back. Following that, the Meat-Cutting Ants brought out six of the water-storing troops that Lin had seen before. Seeing this, the three Skeletal Dragons immediately picked up the water-storing troops and ate them.
Looking at this scene, Lin could not help feeling a twinge of wonder. The White Skeleton Dragon and the Meat Cutting Ants had formed a special relationship. The White Skeleton Dragon used its meat to exchange for the Meat Cutting Ants' water.
Was this a symbiotic relationship? But it didn't seem fair. Although there were six water storage units, they were actually much lighter than the piece of meat … Moreover, the Meat Cutting Ants did seem to have high intelligence.
After the Meat Cutter Ants carried away the meat, they began to retreat into the cave under the wall. The glowing ants also left, and the whole cave returned to darkness.
"Ta ta …"
Lin heard footsteps. The three Skeleton Dragons seemed to have left as well.
"Caw!" Tucker also heard this sound. He immediately shouted, knocked the wall open, and jumped into the cave. At the same time, Lin's light also illuminated the cave. The three Skeleton Dragons happened to be at the edge of the light's illumination.
"Caw caw caw!" The Skeleton Dragon immediately shouted when it saw Tucker, and Tucker responded with a similar word. Then, the other two Skeleton Dragons also shouted, and the two sides began to quarrel.
Their words did not have any obvious meaning. It was more like a threatening roar of creatures swearing territories, but there were already signs of language.
After shouting for a few seconds, the three Skeleton Dragons moved first. They turned around and ran away again.
Lin did not know what relationship they had with the Skeleton Dragon from before, but these three were obviously more … timid.
Lin did not like this description because Skeleton Dragons did not have organs called "guts". Their powerful stomachs contained the function of guts, but most creatures still liked to grow guts. However, guts had nothing to do with fear.
Tucker chased after the fleeing skeletal dragons, and Lin did the same. The three skeletal dragons were small and skinny, and they ran very slowly. One of them fell behind, and Tucker caught up with it. Tucker instantly pulled out a sharp stone from his waist and stabbed it into the neck of the skeletal dragon. As blood gushed out, the skeletal dragon fell to the ground and twitched.
The two who were running away in front were instantly filled with fear after a glance. They ran even faster. Tucker didn't care about the Skeleton Dragon that he had killed and quickly chased after the two who were running away.
Lin glanced at the Skeleton Dragon that was stabbed to death and found that it was missing a piece of its tail, which was still dripping with blood.
So that's how it is. The piece of meat they gave the Meat Cutter Ants was cut from its tail? It seemed that they were forced to a certain extent by the environment here, which was why they did this.
In the process of chasing, the white walls around them slowly turned into ordinary rock walls, and there were puddles on the ground. Lin could smell that the puddles were fresh water.
Lin felt very strange and immediately asked Tucker to stop.
Tucker immediately stopped and looked at Lin in confusion. It was very strange that Lin suddenly asked it to stop. At this time, Tucker also noticed the water on the ground and immediately bent down to drink.
"Stop!"
Lin immediately shouted again.
Tucker must have seen the Skeleton Dragons and the Meat Cutter Ants exchange water. Since there was water here, why did they exchange it? There must be something wrong with the water here. That was the only reason, and Tucker did not seem to have considered this. It seemed that its logical ability was not enough, and it needed to be taught in more detail.
The two Skeleton Dragons had run very deep, and Lin did not intend to give up chasing them. However, Lin asked Tucker to move forward slowly and be careful of any traps along the way.
Tucker seemed to understand. It was much calmer than before and began to move forward carefully.
After a bend in the road ahead, a light slowly lit up. There were so many things that could light up here. Lin immediately turned off the light of the Pterosaur.
After a bend in the road, a strange thing appeared in front of Lin and Tucker.
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
-- Classement
Power Stone 
-- Power
stone